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Thursday, December 2, 2004

No more shirts-and-skins here

Tough news for gym rats yesterday about the YMCA on Broadway near Sandy Boulevard in Northeast Portland -- it's closing. The building's nearly 80 years old, it needs $7 million of renovation, and the folks at the Y aren't in a position to pay that kind of dough. Note to the City Council: All the more reason to get going on that Buckman neighborhood center, and pronto.

No word yet on what will happen to the soon-to-be-closed building. I can't even venture a guess -- six stories of condos, or eight, or ten? So long as they're pricey and ugly, I'm sure they'll be speedily approved by our city fathers.

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This is really too bad. The building is a nice peice of architecture and fit's in to the community really nicely. I hate to see it go.

On a some what related note, there was talk at one time that the new development for the Albina Fuel Company site on 33rd and Brodway would include a new NE YMCA location (as well as the standard condos). I haven't heard more about this part of the plan, but maybe there is hope for a NE YMCA!